20. Timoleon Vieta Come Home - Dan Rhodes

Summary: Call us a sentimental old reading group, but we liked Dan Rhodes Littlest Hobo-esque novel with a punch-to-the-gut-ending. It tells of a faded composer and socialite who lives in self-imposed exile in the Italian countryside with his ever-loyal mongrel. One or two of us queried the author's opinion of his audience though.